March 30, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Maggie Estes, Director of Marketing
mestes@cliburn.org,
817.738.6536
Fort Worth, Texas, March 30, 2011--Since 2007,
the Van Cliburn Foundation has presented free Community
Concerts annually throughout Fort Worth with the goal of
making the finest in classical music accessible to all. This year,
these engaging concerts have been generously underwritten by
Chesapeake Energy Corporation and will feature
2009 Cliburn Competition Silver Medalist Yeol eum
Son. Ms. Son will present a concert featuring works by
Czerny, Tchaikovsky, Debussy, and Liszt at the historic
Rose Marine Theater (1440 North Main Street) on
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. This free
performance is open to the public and does not require a
ticket.
The complete program will include:
Carl
Czerny
Variations on a Theme by P. Rode
"Ricordanza", op. 33
Peter Illych Tchaikovsky Nocturne, op. 10, no.
1
Claude
Debussy
La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune
from Preludes, Book II
Franz
Liszt
Soiree de Vienne, no. 6
transcription of a work by Franz Schubert
Franz Liszt
Danse macabre
transcription of a work by Camille Saint-Saëns
In addition to the performance at the Rose Marine Theater, Ms. Son
will also perform recitals for students and senior citizens at:
Greenbriar Community Center, Como Community
Center, Southwest Community Center,
Resource Connection Campus, and Northside
Community Center.
About the Van Cliburn Foundation
The Van Cliburn Foundation disseminates classical music worldwide,
and launches and nurtures young artists' careers through the
quadrennial Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, the
ensuing three-year international concert tours of its medalists,
award-winning documentaries, and a syndicated radio series
dedicated to the competition and its most memorable performances.
By making the competition available in its entirety on the
Internet, the Foundation has extended its outreach to listeners in
every corner of the globe.
For audiences in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, the Van Cliburn
Foundation promotes great music and world-class artists through the
annual Cliburn Concerts series. It reaches over 30,000 elementary
school students annually with the education programs of Musical
Awakenings®. In 1999, it established the
International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs™, which
The Boston Globe proclaimed "a celebration of music, and
the people who have to make music, no matter what." The sixth
Amateur Competition will be held May 23-29, 2011 at Ed Landreth
Auditorium on the campus of TCU.
Visit Cliburn.org to learn more about the Cliburn as it approaches
the 50th anniversary of the first Van Cliburn International Piano
Competition.
ExxonMobil is the Principal Corporate Sponsor of
the Van Cliburn Foundation. American Airlines;
"Crystelle Waggoner Charitable Trust," Bank of America,
Trustee; Steinway & Sons; and
XTO Energy Inc. are Official Corporate Sponsors.
Official Sponsors are the Amon G. Carter
Foundation, Arts Council of Fort Worth &
Tarrant County, Beaumont Foundation of
America, the Burnett Foundation, the
Sid W. Richardson Foundation, and the T.
Boone Pickens Foundation. Star-Telegram
is the exclusive print media sponsor, and WRR 101.1
FM is the official radio station of Cliburn Concerts.
